Phil Cook wrote:

>> (...now if I can just work out how to solve the problem I'm having...)
> 
> heh and here's me working with/against a Vista laptop -
> 
> "I'll just print to the shared network printer... or not because it's no 
> longer listed."
> Install network printer
> Select network printer
> 'I can't connect' bleats Vista
> Navigates Network Tree
> Sees Printer
> Selects printer
> 'I can't connect' bleats Vista
> Brings up printer properties and queue.
> 'Hey no problem' says Vista
> Install Local Printer
> Create a new port \\name\printer
> 'I can't do that as that port already exists'
> <sigh>
> Install Local Printer
> Use Existing port
> 'Oh hey I've already got drivers for that printer shall I use those?'
> For gods' sake yes.
> 'Okay do you want a test page and for me to make this the default printer?'
> No
> Connect and print without hassle; smack head against desk.
> 
> Similar to the way it flits the wireless netword to Local, Limited, or 
> Local and Internet for no apparent reason, oh and still won't 
> synchronise with a certain mobile phone despite an MCP and [Mobile 
> Company] accredited blah looking at and repeating exactly the same 
> actions I took. I'd love to upgrade it to XP.

Well let me put it this way. I have a networked printer which one PC 
can't print to.

The Dell PC.

Everybody else can print to it, but not this one Dell PC. I eventually 
figured out how to uninstall the print drivers. (I was thinking maybe 
you have to install them from a privilaged account or it doesn't work 
properly.) But no amount of removing and replacing them causes the 
printer to print. All it will tell me is that "the operation failed". No 
detail, no explanation, just "failed". Great.

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